With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.
Saint Etienne, The Night
Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.
Daft Punk, Discovery [Interstella 5555 Edition]
Reissued in honor of its complementary anime film’s 20th anniversary, the French house duo’s breakout LP feels like a time capsule for a brief period of pre-9/11 optimism.
The Coward Brothers, The Coward Brothers
Inspired by Christopher Guest’s recent radio play reviving Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett’s 1985 fictional band, this playful debut album proves that this inside joke still has legs.
Sadie Sartini Garner
The duo’s debut EP drops October 7.
The Detroit darkwave trio’s third album, “Into the Water,” is out next week on felte.
The former member of Foreign Born and The Cave-Ins goes it alone.
And exhale.
It’s the series finale of the Oregon festival’s spring season.
Feast your eyes!
Ryley Walker’s Primrose Green band flexes their own muscles.
Jim Cummings’s twelve-minute film is a masterpiece of characterization.
Boston’s finest.
Sometimes the light is scarier than the darkness.
“Now I’m waving my hands in the middle of the road, and the cars won’t stop, no they won’t even slow.”
Organs, drums, and sax—get dizzy!
Michael Collins’s debut drops September 9 on Domino imprint Weird World.
Sun Ra’s Arkestra formed the spiritual center of the eleventh edition of the Chicago music festival.
Consider this your harbinger of doom.
Because you’re gonna catch Sufjan either way.
For those who can’t make it to Wrigley during this momentous season, that doesn’t mean you can’t get a taste of what’s being served there.
Everyone stay calm!
From the French group’s self-titled collection, out now on Burger.
Taken from April’s “Am I Home?”